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To make Imperial Powder

The rootes & leaves of Bittony St John wort Tor
mentel pimpernel scabious Horehound Terra
sigellatta :1:z:ss Bolarmonake 1z: make thes
into powder vse it with wine or Ale this will
force the venome goe out wher it came in it is
good against ill Ayre infections poyson impostumes
Bitting of a mad Dog or an venomous Beast
powder of scutchinnela is good in the Plague
as much as will lye on a groat in sack & sweat
after it

An Excellent Purg to clens the matrix & bring

Aloes z:ss: gentian those Aristolochy bittany saffron
each :3:ss madder methridate :3:ss: with syrope of
mugwart make a masse of these take a dram
euery day for 6 days together

Pills for the stomach

A dram of mastick pills take them in 5 pills
before supper next morning by eight of the clock
take an ounce of manna disolved in poset drink
the pills must be made up with 5 drops of
oyl of Annisseeds

Mr George Juies remedy for the Piles

A pece of stone Lime as big as an egge lay it all
night in a pottle of runing water then power out the
cleer & put to it a good handful of Brown sage the
like of Plantaine boyle thes in the lime water to a
quart then straine it out & put to it a pennyworth of
verdegreace the like of Bolarmonake & white coperis
& camphir boyle it to a pint wash them herewith
this cured him after he had been in the hands of several Doctors & chirurgions

:P:3:

Gascons Powder

Besor stone 40 graines perl 4 scruples white Amber one dram
& a halfe crabbs eyes 2 drams red corral one dram & a
halfe contrayerva roote halfe a dram scorzonera roote halfe
Lapis contrayerva one dram & halfe crabbs claw prepared halfe
an ounce thes powders & into past with powder Jelly of Adders skins

Another

White Amber red corral perl Burnt Harts Horne crabbs eyes
each z:i: east Bezor z:i: crabbs claw as much in weight
as all the rest make thes into impalyable powder by grinding
on a marble stone make them up with Jelly of Harts horns
& saffron & a little spirit of sack

An excellent Purge in the spring for Palsy & wind in the
veines

An ounce of senne the same of Flowers of Lavander Flowers
put them into 3 quarts of new Ale drink it at 8 days old
a pint morning & afternoon with a tost nuttmeg & suger

Dr Butlers Plague water

Take 3 pints of the best muscadine boyle in it one handful
of rue the like of goats rue & sage till a 3d part is boyld
away then straine it & set it on the fire againe put therto
in powder Long Pepper ginger nuttmegs each an ounce let
thes boyle a little then take it ofe & put ther to an ounce
of methridate 2 of venes Treacle a quarter of a pint of ague
vitte keep it close stopped if one be infected take night &
morning a spoonful & sweat after it never any miscaryed
that vsed it

To wash the Face when the Smal Pox is shealing
of to keep them from pitting & take out the rednes

spormacitte & white wine mixe them & bath the face
warme therwith night & morning allsoe vrin is good to wash
with if they be scarred bind paper lead upon them at night take it ofe
in the morning